Programme
Thursday, May 18
Brusewitz Hall, Östra Ågatan 19, Uppsala
09:00 | Registration |
09:20-09:30 | Opening of the conference |
09:30-11:30 | Panel 1: History and Identity Chair: Igor Torbakov (UCRS) |
Volodymyr Kravchenko, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Canada “’Velikii Peredel’: Ukrainian-Russian Debates over National Time and Space (2014-2017)” |
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Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine “Banderization of Ukraine?:Political Discussions and Public Opinion since 2013” |
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Serhii Plokhii, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, USA “Leninopad: Region and Politics of Memory in Revolutionary Ukraine” |
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11:30-13:00 | Lunch break |
13:00–15:00 | Panel 2: State Building and Democratic Consolidation Chair: Stefan Hedlund (UCRS) |
Margarita Balmaceda, Seton Hall University, USA “Between ‘Elite Original Sin’ and External Conditions: Ukraine’s Foundational Bargain and the Rent Swamps of the Post-Soviet Transition” |
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Oleksandr Fisun, Kharkiv National University, Ukraine “Informal Politics and Neopatrimonial Democracy after the Euromaidan Revolution” |
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Andrew Wilson, University College London, UK, and the European Council on Foreign Relations “Sistema’s Antigens: How Post-Communism has Defended Itself in Ukraine since 2014” |
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15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
15:30–17:30 | Panel 3: Society Evolving Chair Leonid Polishchuk (UCRS) |
Mark Beissinger, Princeton University, USA “A Tale of Two Surveys: Ukrainian Revolutionaries and Their Supporters in 2004 and 2013” |
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Olexiy Haran, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine “The end of Geopolitical Ambivalence of Ukrainians: Regional Dimensions and Policy Implications” |
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Mykola Riabchuk, Institute of Political and Nationalities Studies, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Different Ways of Being a Ukrainian: Construction of Modern Ukrainian Identity as Emancipation from the East Slavonic ‘Imagined Community’” |
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